In our complex society people must be able to process information and operate effectively in ambiguous and unstructured situations.
Not exact matches
To fill the gap left by a weakened church,
people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the
complex problems of
society in personal, direct and simple ways.
This conception must not only be able to deal with the individual
in isolation and
in terms of individual
complexes and aspects of his personality but also as a whole
person in relation to other
persons and to
society.
He is, rather, a very
complex structured
society which sustains, among many other
societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate
society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a
person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered
society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).
Instead of disintegrating the human
person into a swarm of entities that are then reunited into the — dubious — unity of a bare «
society,» the simpler and more realistic solution ought to lie
in conceiving the
person, steadfastly and from the beginning, as one entity, even though a
complex one, as befits Whitehead's starting point.
The defining characteristics of personal identity reflect (and
in some sense are the manner of) the resolution of this complexity.3 I think it follows that
in the living
person both the
complex content of concrescence and the manner of integrating the content are dependent upon the environing
society — so dependent that the disembodied soul appears to be
in categoreal difficulty.
The western world, including churches, have a habit of showing up
in developing countries with a lot of zeal and good intentions that ultimately end up hurting or crippling
complex societies, and then wounding precious
people through inadvertent ignorance.
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In today's Britain
people with disabilities (including those with profound and
complex needs) should be supported to make a full and meaningful contribution to our
society.
Humans live
in complex societies in which
people specialise
in different jobs.
Thurner studies all sorts of
complex systems at the Medical University of Vienna, so when one of his doctoral students just happened to create one of the most popular free browser - based games
in Europe, Thurner suggested using the game, called Pardus, to study the spontaneous organization of
people in a closed
society.
In just a few centuries, the
people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their
complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism.
A thousand years ago, no one could have missed Cahokia — a
complex, sophisticated
society with an urban center, satellite villages, and as many as 50,000
people in all.
Modern
society has come a long way
in how it treats interracial couples, but it's still a
complex and racially charged subject for many
people.
The growing complexity of modern living, for individual, communities and
societies, also suggests that the solutions to our problems will be also be
complex:
in a structurally imbalanced world, the imperative of reconciling diverse perspectives and interests,
in local settings with sometimes global implications, will require young
people to become adept
in handling tensions, dilemmas and trade - offs.
In order for prospective teachers to become effective teachers in our multicultural society, they must first understand their own identities as complex multidimensional people in a multicultural societ
In order for prospective teachers to become effective teachers
in our multicultural society, they must first understand their own identities as complex multidimensional people in a multicultural societ
in our multicultural
society, they must first understand their own identities as
complex multidimensional
people in a multicultural societ
in a multicultural
society.
«We live
in a
complex and ever - changing
society, and my art calls on
people to question and engage with that reality, to respond to history as it happens, and to demand accountability.»
Void of all shyness, finding desire within the repugnant and sacred within the profane, Witkin approaches these
complex issues by working with the
people most often cast aside by
society in an unapologetic presentation of deformity.
Throughout his
complex and compelling practice, Marshall combines a wide range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black
people in society.
His
complex and multilayered portrayals of youths, interiors, nudes, housing estate gardens, land - and seascapes synthesize different traditions and genres, while seeking to counter stereotypical representations of black
people in society.
What is more, past global warming has included both minor and mass extinction events (e.g. PETM, Permian - Triassic extinction) so even if current warming is
in line with what's repeatedly been experienced
in the past, it doesn't follow that either the process of warming or the end result are desireable from the perspective of maintaining an advanced, affluent,
complex human
society based on creating reliable surpluses of food for 7.5 + billion
people.
Of course, simplifying anything too much will lead to experts and more - informed viewers criticizing the work for oversimplifying the subject matter - and as I'll discuss below, even TreeHugger has written about the problems with this oversimplification - but
in order for anyone to understand something as
complex as how global trade, manufacturing and consumption functions
in modern
society, it can be helpful to start with a basic overview so the average
person can more easily digest the material.
Yet I believe that the help the profession can supply gives the profession a basis for its existence
in our
complex society of
people.
With so much at stake
in the middle of one of the most
complex processes
in society, why wouldn't a
person seek the help and advice of a trained DUI attorney?
CASEL defines SEL as the process by which
people develop their social and emotional competencies for «success
in school and
in the workplace, including the skills necessary to recognize and manage emotions, develop care, and concern for others, form positive relationships, make responsible decisions, and successfully handle the demands of growing up
in today's
complex society.»